I am still working on getting a regular text file to its phonetic form. So please don't post questions asking how to configure this on the kindle to get it to read in other languages. I don't know yet. This is just a first step towards that. Everybody is welcome to help out on the effort.

Hello
Idea: Create a microphone in Kindle `s
In theory, reversing the operation of a speaker, a microphone is created .. I did it with a headset old and I think it is possible with a Kindle touch .. drivers only need to run the speaker in reverse, in theory.....

I I change the function of my headset with the audio settings panel of windows

Flite!!!
THAT was what I was using before It's now officially a small world!! : D

IIRC I ended up make a tmp text file "on-the-fly" as flite expects a file as an argument.

(I recall looking at http://festvox.org/ too for a little time, think flite can convert the voices from that)

I got flite cross compiled today. I am having a problem using the --with-audio=alsa option on ./configure. Did you come across this?

Even though I have libasound2-dev installed, it is complaining all over the place that it is missing. I did succeed in compiling it with oss support and doing the output to WAV files. Once I figure this one out I might bring it in another post.

Another way to check this would be to put those same files you listen to in a jumpy way directly into the /music folder in the Kindle, and play them with the Kindle's Experimental mp3 player. Maybe it is like you said, they have a big rate and the Kindle can't handle them propperly. I didn't look into this.

I am still working on getting a regular text file to its phonetic form. So please don't post questions asking how to configure this on the kindle to get it to read in other languages. I don't know yet. This is just a first step towards that. Everybody is welcome to help out on the effort.

I was able to cross compile flite. flite is a text-to-speech software
that can be used in embedded software. I compiled it static so no
libraries are needed. There is a bug that makes flite not to run on the
first try. So for example if you run something like:

# ./flite -t "Hello world!"

You will hear nothing. But if you run it one more time, it works.
I must be doing something wrong, or the libraries, or the binary,
or the kindle. If you find out, please let everybody know on this post.

Since the Kindle works under ALSA for audio, you must have a cross compiled
version of alsa-lib-1.0.13. I believe a newer version of the ALSA libs
could be used. I just tried this one and it works (sorta, read the end of
the post)

The bug. That makes it not work the first time... It's probably the soundcard taking it's sweet time to respond. And probably not your fault. I seem to recall some horrible workaround I came up with.... erm... aplay ./10msSilence.wav; ./doNextThing.sh seems to ring a bell. I also seem to recall we possibly located a kernel level bug that was probably at fault. It would all be in the original Audio Thread I think

I can't seem to grab those mega files. Links okay? I am not getting a "Download files" or "Enter decryption key" page. Just the home page. Would like to play with them : D

(Text to speech options in KUAL? maybe... would be nice to have some accessibility on the devices that can support it.)

Do you plan to create a ttsd replacement ?
Two years ago I started to work on it but then discovered a TTS voice suitable for the built-in TTS engine and lost my interest.
All I have is a stub listening on DBus.